ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,211, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Error remapping" was invented by Christopher Haywood (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Many error correction schemes fail to correct for double-bit errors and a module must be replaced when these double-bit errors occur repeatedly at the same address. This helps prevent data corruption. In an embodiment, the addresses for one of the memory devices exhibiting a single-bit error (but not the other also exhibiting a single bit error) is transformed before the internal memory arrays are accessed. This has the effect of moving one of the error prone memory...